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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Protection Project Country Report [DOC] The Paul H. www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/mauritius.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF
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ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Global Monitoring Report on the status of action
against commercial exploitation of children - MAURITIUS [PDF] ECPAT International, 2007 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/AF/Global_Monitoring_Report-MAURITIUS.pdf [accessed 19 June 2011] According to a 2003 study conducted
by the The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/mauritius.htm [accessed 20 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61582.htm [accessed 20 February 2011] CHILDREN - Child prostitution was a
problem, and the government targeted the practice as a law enforcement and
prevention priority. There were reports that some schoolgirls, independent of
third party involvement, engaged in prostitution for spending money. TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS – There were reports that
children were trafficked within the country for child prostitution. There
were reports that some schoolgirls worked in conjunction with prostitution
rings or family members. The government continued a five-year action plan to
combat child prostitution, and the Ministry of Women, Child Development, and
Family Welfare ran a hotline for reporting cases of child prostitution.
Government officials and agencies in the Ministry of Women's Rights, in the
Attorney General's office, and in the police department sought ways to
prevent and prosecute child prostitution. NGOs and the government drop-in
center provided shelters, counseling, and education for victims of child
prostitution. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 11 October 1996 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/mauritius1996.html [accessed 1 March 2011] [18] The Committee is concerned by
the reported increase in child abuse, including infanticide, domestic
violence and child prostitution and the lack of adequate measures for the
psycho-social recovery of child victims of such abuse. Concluding Observations of the Committee on Economic,
Social, and Cultural Rights International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural
Rights, 1996 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/esc/mauritius1996.html [accessed 19 September 2011] [245] The Committee recommends an
in-depth study and analysis of the situation of child abuse, child
prostitution, domestic violence against women, teenage pregnancy, abortion,
suicide, and alcohol and drug abuse, and of how the State party can best
protect and ensure the economic, social and cultural rights of the population
of Mauritius affected by those problems. In this regard, the State party
should, inter alia, initiate efforts to
gather statistics and other information relevant to the situation. Young boys sold for sex www.defimedia.info/articles/6019/1/Young-boys-sold-for-sex/Page1.html [Last access date unavailable] The problem of child prostitution
in Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report on
implementation of the Agenda for Action ECPAT International, November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13 September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – Protection Project Country Report [DOC] The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/mauritius.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF
TRAFFICKING -
Prostitution is rampant in ECPAT: What Makes Children Vulnerable to Sexual
Exploitation? ECPAT International www.info-avec.org/en/content/view/35/5/ [accessed 15 September 2011] DISCRIMINATION
/ ETHNICITY - In a
study conducted in 2000 by the Ministry of Women, Family Welfare and Child
Development in Worst Forms of Child Labour
Convention, 1999 Report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of
Conventions and Recommendations [accessed 19 June 2011] ARTICLE 3 CLAUSE (b) - A second study in 2001, commissioned by UNICEF and the Ministry of Women’s Rights, Child Development and Family Welfare, which revealed that there are more than 2,600 children and 3,900 adults involved in prostitution. Based on the findings and recommendations of the report of the second study, a two-year National Plan of Action has been prepared by the Government focusing on the four recommendations made at the first world conference on CSEC held in Stockholm in 1996, namely: (i) coordination and cooperation; (ii) prevention; (iii) protection; and (iv) reintegration. List of issues to be taken up in connection with the
consideration of the second periodic report of the CRC/C/65/Add.35 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 15 September 2011] SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND SEXUAL ABUSE - Sexual exploitation of Children
is covered mostly by the provisions of the Child Protection Act and the
Criminal Act. A study on Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) in
Contemporary Forms Of Slavery Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of
the Program of Action for the Prevention of the Sale of Children, Child
Prostitution and Child Pornography, submitted pursuant to Sub-Commission
resolution 1998/19- 2003 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 19 June 2011] - It is estimated
that there are more than 2,600 children and 3,900 adults involved in
prostitution. (They come from both rural and urban areas and form
the main ethnic groups in - The underlying
causes of CSEC are broken families, sexual abuse within and outside the
family, early school dropouts, substance abuse and the negative influence of
the family environment and peers; - Monthly income of
the majority of the families of young victims of CSEC is less than Rs 5,000; - 13.5 per cent of
the children covered in the study had become child mothers, over one third of
them had had an abortion and 62.5 per cent of the children had a family
member or close relation working as a sex worker, in particular, their own
mother; - 96 per cent of young
prostitutes engage in sexual relations at a very early age of their life and
many of them have had sex for the first time with their boyfriends. More than
57 per cent of the children had their first sexual experience in return for a
gift or money; -CSEC takes place at nightclubs, hotels,
brothels, apartments/bungalows, residence of pimps or
pensions. Taxi drivers and hotel employees are involved in the
prostitution network and act as procurers for tourists. Mobile
phones are the means of communication for making arrangements from where
vulnerable children are spotted and recruited. It also appears
that the tentacles of the network extend to schools; - The money paid to
victims varies from Rs 400 per hour or Rs 3,000 per day and Rs 700 to Rs 4,000 per night; - The majority of
clients are local people, although young prostitutes do have foreign tourists
as clients (19.8 per cent) and 20.5 per cent of the children work under
leaders, 51 per cent of whom are men; - The majority of
children involved in prostitution have been to school, but more than 57 per
cent of them dropped out of school at grade 6. This deprived them
of opportunities of employment and restricted their options in life; -There is a correlation between drug abuse
and prostitution. Over 25 per cent of the children had taken drugs
at some time or other and 12.5 per cent were in the habit of taking drugs; - Symptoms of
reproductive tract infection are quite common among child
victims. Certain vital facts about AIDS are unknown to children
and a sizeable section of them do not even know that AIDS is incurable. Consideration of Reports
submitted by States Parties under article 18 of the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women [DOC] UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women CEDAW, 19 January 2005 www.bayefsky.com/reports/mauritius_cedaw_c_mar_3_5_2004.doc [accessed 19 June 2011] Article 6: Exploitation of Women [2] Following the findings of the
CSEC report a High Level Steering Committee has been set up. It is monitoring
the implementation of a National Plan of Action (NPA) on the Protection of
Children against Sexual Abuse including Sexual exploitation of Children in
Mauritius, in order to eliminate CSEC and to protect CSEC victims and ensure
their recovery and integration in society. The NPA covers a 2-year period,
starting February 2003, and its objective is to ensure the protection of children
from any form of abuse as well as the creation of a conducive environment
within the family and the civil society. Consequently, the NPA is based on
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